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General Stanley McChrystal led the Joint Special Operations Command for the U.S. Military for five years, between 2003 and 2008. Much of that time was spent leading operations against Al Qaeda in Iraq, immediately following the fall of Baghdad. This was no easy task, of course, but to make matters worse McChrystal discovered early on that the way his forces were trained and organized to do their jobs was actually making the job more difficult.

McChrystal’s forces needed to dismantle an enemy network, which was less about the iconic image of columns of tanks rolling across the battlefield and more about smaller, focused operations—an iterative process of gathering intelligence, analyzing it, and using the insight to direct the next ...

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